• Less bandwidth, charged the same amount? What?
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Hoping this is around the right place, if not, a moderator can happily move it to where they see fit, so long as it's somewhere helpful hopefully. Anyway, I was browsing the website that I get my internet from, which is not the best, but Rogers. I was looking at my internet, which is Roger's Extreme. Costing 61$ p/ month. That's a hole in the wallet, for a 95GB cap. Now I've had trouble with this in the past, I phoned them up one day too ask because I was supposed to have a higher bandwidth cap, the rates changed from when we first had the internet hooked up. They were willing and all fine to do that, until they checked out the modem that I had, which was 'out of date', so they couldn't add the extra bandwidth on. Now this seemed like bullshit, they wanted me to bring in the old one, too exchange it for a new one, that would cost.. I think 5 extra dollars just for the modem, on top of the 61$. So what I looked at, is that we're getting charged the same amount, as if we HAD the new modem, but we do not, and we have less than the stated bandwidth cap. Is this illegal? I think bandwidth caps are a stupid thing anyway, but I don't see many competitors that are reliable in the area.
Unfortunately, they can do that. They can pretty much do what they want. Honestly, I get a lawyer to read any documentation to be signed before hooking up with a company like that. I had ISP that told us we had unlimited bandwidth but capped us at 60GB each month. We had no internet for 3 days because we hit the limit. And we were overpaying to be honest. and after the lawyer read the documents, he said that it stated that they were allowed to declare a cap on bandwidth at anytime without any reason or notification to the customer, which is really bullshit. they should atleast warn you when you near the cap.
I currently use Time Warner Cable, now yes they will rip you off by jacking up the bill after half a year or so, but I have unlimited and I streamed tons of netflix movies and a lot of content, on the other hand I get 20MB Download and 1MB Upload(They dislike Upload.... a LOT and my past gameservers). However the highest they went with us was around $40-50 but so far their is no downtime at all here and the speeds stay above. And yes, some ISP companies are complete dicks, but look at reviews first, but Time warner will most likely just tug on you for more cash but they won't knot your bandwidth.
[QUOTE=Starsmine;36835951]I currently use Time Warner Cable, now yes they will rip you off by jacking up the bill after half a year or so, but I have unlimited and I streamed tons of netflix movies and a lot of content, on the other hand I get 20MB Download and 1MB Upload(They dislike Upload.... a LOT and my past gameservers).[/QUOTE] It's not that they dislike upload, it's that generally, residential places don't need much upload so they don't provide much for residential plans. Now if you were to get s business plan, it'd cost a good bit more, but you would be getting either equal upload and download or more upload then download. though if you ask your ISP some, such as my old one, will allow you to add on more upload speed to your residential plan for some more money .
[QUOTE=Starsmine;36835951]I currently use Time Warner Cable, now yes they will rip you off by jacking up the bill after half a year or so, but I have unlimited and I streamed tons of netflix movies and a lot of content, on the other hand I get 20MB Download and 1MB Upload(They dislike Upload.... a LOT and my past gameservers). However the highest they went with us was around $40-50 but so far their is no downtime at all here and the speeds stay above. And yes, some ISP companies are complete dicks, but look at reviews first, but Time warner will most likely just tug on you for more cash but they won't knot your bandwidth.[/QUOTE] 40-50$ Sounds a lot better than 61$ per month with a chance of overlapping my cap. Edit: Time warner cable seems to be for US. Sadly. I'm in Canada.
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